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5 Ways to Prepare for Chicken Illness, Injury, Death & End of Life Decisions

by Kathy Shea Mormino, The Chicken Chick Most of us spend a great deal of time preparing for the arrival of our first chickens, but few of us give much thought to how we would handle serious injuries, illnesses and end-of-life decisions until they are upon us. My recent experience with a dying chicken made me […]

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5 Conditions Not Worthy of a Death Sentence: The No-Cull Zone

by Kathy Shea Mormino, The Chicken Chick In the past decade, the popularity of backyard chicken-keeping has elevated the status of chickens from expendable, barnyard livestock to valued family pets. Unfortunately, many of the earlier poultry-keeping articles and books were written with livestock in mind; frequently in those writings, culling is the proposed solution for certain injuries, behaviors and […]